Assange, and the critical threat to publishing state secrets

Remember that little spying case against Julian Assange? The Department of Justice indicted him last year for publishing classified US military and State Department documents leaked in 2010 by Chelsea Manning, who was then a soldier in Iraq. While Attorney General William Barr is now on his way out the door, the charges against the WikiLeaks founder, brought under the Espionage Act, are alive and as dangerous as ever.

New leadership at the Justice Department traditionally sticks with most of the cases initiated by the prior administration, so it seems...